I started reading this but it’s annoying to read so I’m going to stop. I don’t know what’s standard in the field here but there seems to be way more jargon than necessary. Also the explanation of depression does not ring true to me:
In this sense, we might conjecture that major depression occurs when the brain is certain that it will encounter an uncertain environment, i.e. the world is inherently volatile, capricious, unpredictable and uncontrollable.
Offhand, this sounds like a description of anxiety to me, not depression. I first really experienced something I’d call anxiety a little over a year ago, and the internal experience felt a lot to me like tremendous uncertainty about whether X was happening, where X felt like a life-and-death situation. Whereas, to the extent that I’ve experienced anything like depression, it felt more like certainty that nothing good will ever happen.
I do get the sense that this paper has something valuable to say but I don’t want to put in the additional effort to figure out what that thing is at the moment. I’m also distracted by the repeated references to mean and precision being sufficient statistics, which I can’t make sense of; those are sufficient statistics for, say, Gaussian distributions, but certainly not in general.
I started reading this but it’s annoying to read so I’m going to stop. I don’t know what’s standard in the field here but there seems to be way more jargon than necessary. Also the explanation of depression does not ring true to me:
Offhand, this sounds like a description of anxiety to me, not depression. I first really experienced something I’d call anxiety a little over a year ago, and the internal experience felt a lot to me like tremendous uncertainty about whether X was happening, where X felt like a life-and-death situation. Whereas, to the extent that I’ve experienced anything like depression, it felt more like certainty that nothing good will ever happen.
I do get the sense that this paper has something valuable to say but I don’t want to put in the additional effort to figure out what that thing is at the moment. I’m also distracted by the repeated references to mean and precision being sufficient statistics, which I can’t make sense of; those are sufficient statistics for, say, Gaussian distributions, but certainly not in general.